Tesla drive across Kola
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Frederic Hauge says this dirty smelter in Nikel can be a major provider of nickel to the fast growing production of batteries for electric cars. -
Tesla is a game-changer for the car industry," argues Frederic Hauge. Here at start downtown Kirkenes. -
Frederic Hauge shows the electric Tesla to Head of Police in Eastern Finnmark, Ellen Katrine Hætta. -
At Storskog checkpoint on the Norwegian, Russian border. -
First ever electric car that makes a stop at Titovka road cafe. -
The Tesla Model S performs very well on the road over the mountains of the Kola Peninsula. -
When Tesla will produce a million cars annually, the company will need huge amount of nickel, but maybe not from mega-polluter like Norilsk-Nickel's factory in Nikel. -
With no noise from any combustion engine, driving the Tesla is a pure joy over the Kola Peninsula mountains where the road is bathed in low winter sunshine -
The Tesla has a 15 percent shorter range in temperatures like today with minus 17 degrees Celsius compared with a drive in the summer -
Huge interest for the Tesla after we parked it outside hotel ParkInn in Murmansk.
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